Brian Baker Quotes
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.
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Don't get me wrong – I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!
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I'm obsessed with Juice Press - they're everywhere. I spend so much money at that place it's crazy.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from.
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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
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I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
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I was a bit of a rebel.
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If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
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I always have said from the beginning of my career that I was going for the 'Geek Trifecta' because I'm such a total geek. I want to be in everything that has to do with the things that I enjoyed when I was a kid, which was 'Battlestar Galactica,' and being in 'Big Bang Theory,' and being in video games.
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My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.
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All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
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Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
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Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general headings: boredom and the desire for growth.
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But he didn’t know exactly where the worry was coming from. He just had a feeling. Like thunder in the sky. Only the thunder was in his stomach. There would be a storm.
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The message is, 'You're not welcome here -- you have to go there,'
